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Might the problem of good and evil, our faculty for telling right from wrong, be connected with our faculty of thought? To be sure, not in the sense that thinking would ever be able to produce the good deed as its result, as though “virtue
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“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
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“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”
― The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
― The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”
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“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
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“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
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Q & A with Brian Francis Heffron - Colorado Mandala
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